The award, sponsored by Citizens Gas Fuel Co., is named for the founder of Adrian.

Other awards were presented for business beautification and ethics in business.

Chamber president and CEO Ann Hughes told the 192 people gathered for the dinner and awards presentations that the Comstock Award is given to individuals who are “leaders,” “doers,” “givers” and “founders,” and “enhance the community and its inhabitants.”

Gray is president of the Gray Institute, which offers physical therapy training seminars, courses and videos worldwide and also provides physical therapy consulting and rehabilitation services, including for professional athletes.

In 2010, Gray joined 3 Dimensional Physical Therapy, which is housed in the Centre and also has a location in Tecumseh.

Last year, the Gray Institute entered a partnership with Nike to develop a program to improve golfers’ performances.

Gray created Free2Play, an enhancement to school physical education curricula that focuses on proving to children that they have “worth, value and dignity,” according to the Gray Institute website.

Gray started a group of clinics called Gary Gray Physical Therapy. He sold a majority interest in that business in 2004 and left the company in 2008.

In his acceptance speech, Gray focused on the “blessings” that Adrian and its people have and how because of that, they “bless other people.”

Gray gave a brief history of Addison J. Comstock and his embrace of Christianity, saying that laid the foundation for the town.

“We definitely have, I think, created an environment where this is a blessed community, this is a blessed town,” Gray said.

In her remarks, Hughes noted that the chamber marked its 10th anniversary Nov. 11.

“This community, all of it, Adrian and all of Lenawee County, knows how to pull together, and we’re part of that resolve,” Hughes said.